Fashionable Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages 3-9

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2. Theoretical Discourse

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 10-25

3. Electronic Fashion

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 26-53

4. Interactive Interfaces

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 54-79

5. Scientific Couture

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 80-91

6. Sensual Being & Tangible Touch

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 92-109

7. Wearable Explorations

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 110-137

8. Social Fabric

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 138-157

9. Sonic Landscape

   • Sabine Seymour

   Pages 158-173

10. Material Witness

    • Sabine Seymour

    Pages 174-195

11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-249

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Fashion and technology, science and design are contrasting notions that will be explored in this work. The idea for this book arose afew year.s ago when I realized the need for reference material for my students and fellow researchers. In addition, I wanted to convey my concept on the amalgamation of technology and fashion. Over the years more people and more people have become interested in the ever-expanding field of fashionable technology. Some approach it purely with regard to future style while others are drawn to its technical potential and the combining of 'hard' technology with 'soft' textile. The many precedents that were broughtto my attention resulted in a proposition to create a comprehensive collection of projects and resources about fashionable technology. The theoretical discourse in this book intends to provide an initiation to fashionable technology. It addresses the major concepts and provides a detailed bibliography that points to additional publications. The list of materials, blogs, institutes and events affords a starting point for further explorations in this expanding field. Many of the projects in this book are conceptual in nature and others are actual commercial products. However, all capture the imagination in their various proposals on the future meaning and purpose of clothing. Some of the projects were slightly difficult to categorize singularly as they incorporated aspects that were applicable to diverse chapters yet all ofthese projects are inspirational and stimulating. This book aims to present a compact body of work in the field of fashionable technology.

• Design
• Fashion
• Mode
• Smart Textiles
• Technology
• V109
• Wearables
• electronic fashion
• media
• scientific couture
• wearable explorations

Sabine Seymour received a Master of Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia University’s MBA program in New York and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts.

She introduced the course "Fashionable Technology" and is a long standing faculty member at Parsons The New School For Design in New York and joined the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz. She has taken part in numerous international congresses and events including Smart Fabrics, Ars Electronica Festival, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She has also been a curator of pertinent exhibitions such as Our Cyborg Future: Me or Machine? Newcastle, UK, in 2007 and ISEA 2004 in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia.

Moondial is the consultancy that resulted from her research, concept works, and her role as an educator. It is specialized on "Fashionable Technology" with clients ranging from DuPont to Dott07.

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